Renee Olstead Quotes

I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice.

Renee Olstead

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• Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Work
  • Look
  • Well

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • Think
  • Irish
  • Genetics

• As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Good
  • American
  • Taken

• How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Life
  • Man
  • Strange

• I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Book
  • Serious
  • Better

• Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Family
  • Eye
  • Building

• I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman... it amazes me still.

  

  Jenni Rivera
  • People

• I'm kind of a laugh junkie. It's what I appreciate in life, because life is rich and sometimes it's hard, and I really, really love to laugh and gravitate towards people who make me laugh.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • People
  • Life

• I'm a slow learner. When people are so talented or facile at picking up an instrument and playing covers, like Yo La Tengo, I admire that. But I could never do that.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • People
  • Up

• Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

  

  Jean Toomer
  • Life
  • Men
  • Wishes

• No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

  

  Plato
  • Law
  • Understanding

• The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.

  

  James Dyson
  • Lazy

• I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

  

  Joe Cocker
  • Good

• I didn't know initially whether I'd like doing TV and whether I'd be able to work with other people. I've always done my own thing. I've never put myself into that situation, but it's the most fun I've had in years.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect - all of them free ideas.

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • Free
  • Humorous

• I was very lucky in that my parents were very broad-minded. Because they had come from another country and hadn't been able to fulfill their dreams, they wanted me to be more of myself, if you know what I mean.

  

  Anne-Marie Duff
  • Country
  • Parents

• I went seven years between 2002 and 2009 without winning. Then I did win in '09.

  

  Matt Kuchar
  • Winning

• Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, we'll move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate.

  

  Jason Silva
  • Thinking
  • Power
  • Fate

• I really brought that with me: that people think gay people are disgusting... I remember thinking, 'Okay, I might be gay. But I won't tell anybody. Nobody will ever know.'

  

  Adam Rippon
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• I like to test myself and see where I am and how I am against other people in this sport. I think that's the real draw for me.

  

  Barb Honchak
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Real

• Despite wanting to work in publishing, I was a publisher's worst nightmare: I rarely bought new books. So my goal was to publish the kind of books I would buy, and read. My reading habits have changed since starting the press. The only other "goal", per say, is to continue to experiment. I don't want the press to ever fall into a formula, or to be pigeonholed - "They do great reissues of modernist poets!" - I want to keep pushing, exploring the kind of title we can get away with. And working with authors who challenge the way I think about writing, editing and reading.

  

  Andrew Latimer Camel
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Book

• Life is like that, don’t you think? Mostly bad choices. All you can do is keep your balance between them.

  

  Joseph Kanon
  • Life
  • Choices
  • Balance

• I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice.

  

  Renee Olstead
  • Thinking
  • Teacher
  • Challenges